Posted on 06/11/2006 5:41:54 PM PDT by jimbo123
The dinner party had gathered last Wednesday evening in a farmhouse in the fertile, fruit-growing countryside just outside Baqubah, 30 miles north of Baghdad. One of the attendees was Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. With him were at least three women and three men, including Sheik Abdul-Rahman, al-Zarqawi's so-called spiritual adviser and confidant. Also in the house was one of al-Zarqawi's most trusted couriers, an aide tasked with relaying messages from the commander to militants in the field. What al-Zarqawi could not have known was that U.S. and Jordanian intelligence officials had been tracking the movements of Abdul-Rahman and the courier--whom Jordanian intelligence refers to as Mr. X--for weeks. Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, watching the building. After years of hunting, they finally had the prey in their sights.
But almost as soon as they took up position, the commandos feared they were about to lose him. A special-operations source tells TIME that the surveillance team was worried that there wasn't enough time to assemble a ground assault force to raid the house and capture al-Zarqawi; the commandos at the site lacked sufficient manpower and weaponry to attack on their own. As dusk neared, the team fretted al-Zarqawi might slip away if they waited too long. A knowledgeable Pentagon official says the Delta team "saw one group come into the house and one group exit." Al-Zarqawi was not in the departing group, but the commandos were afraid he might be in the next one. The recon unit's leader radioed his superiors to request an air strike.
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Good lord, let's hope not (for the girl's sake). Even 16 is too young (IMO); "marrying" an 8 or 9 yr old shows a truly sick and perverted mind.
Time Mag.......... "in a farmhouse in the fertile, fruit-growing countryside just outside Baqubah"..........
Oh, my God!!!
We may have knocked some fruit off the tree; probably the tree of eternal life:
And, now innocent Iraqi's are going to die from the lack of fruit,
and, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!
As much as I LOVE hearing about his death, I think the details should be kept secret.
He's dead is sufficient enough.
I like keeping the fear alive in Al Qaeda.
If they don't know who is talking and who to trust, I would hope it would create dissention among the ranks.
angelina had a baby with Brad Pitt and delivered it in Africa.
tom Cruise was the one who had a baby and wanted to eat the umbilical cord.
Puhleeez! Get your move star stories straight...after all, these stories are sooooo important! ha.
Islam permits the taking of a "temporary wife"....
They are permitted to bed a woman for a one night stand --- and hit the road in the morning....if they take her as a "temporary wife"..
Cool, huh?
We may never learn the "status" of the 16 year old "wife"...
I suspect lunatic bastards like Al Zarq, are "over compensating" for their small "equipment" and therefore their desire for VERY young girls....
Semper Fi
Good, a threefer.
This is precisely why the comparison between Iraq and Viet Nam is false
Clarify please. What mistake? Where?
No, he is just a follower of Mohammed, the capo of the Arab mafia. If my history serves me correctly Zarqawi's wife is almost twice as old as Mo's wife.
Early reports of the bombing detailed the death of a "woman and a child".
Obviously the woman was Zarqawi's 16 year old wife which probably means the dead child was probably Zarqawi's child.
Depending on how old the child was, that would mean Zarqawi "married" his blushing bride when she was 15 or 14 or maybe even 13.
12 perhaps? Regardless, even the sympathetic media would be hard-pressed to paint Zarqawi as a model citizen seeing as how he was a pedophile.
Wasn't there a child killed as well? Was that his child? How old was the child if the wife was 16?
I too find it sad that many criticize the Muslim faith and its treatment of women but forget that many laws here in the US are the same in relation to the legal marriage age.
In America, 16 year old wife = sexual predator
It's been amusing to watch the media all concerned for him.
Interesting ...
Here's a link http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/muta/3.htm
It appears is just a form of legalized prostitution, with a caveat ... your permanent wife has to approve of it.
Wow - who would have thought the NorthEast would have the lowest age.
Oh - wait - that's where all the perverts reside...
TIME magazine is an active part of the lefty "news" media.
Always has been.
Always will be, until the lefty media goes under completely.
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